What it Means to Be 98% Chimpanzee

Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Marks teaches at the University of North Carolina! Charlotte. He is the author of Human Biodiversity: Genes! Race! and History (1995) and coauthor! with Edward Staski! of Evolutionary Anthropology (1992). Klappentext "In this clever! entertaining! and thoughtful book! Marks lays out some important limitations of science in general and genetics in particular. Using terms that everybody can understand! he demolishes the pretensions of scientists who try to use genetics to answer questions about the kinship of nations! the rights of animals! the racial identity of Kennewick Man! the hereditary Jewish priesthood! and the existence of God. Marks has a lot of fun with all this! and so will his readers."-Matt Cartmill! author of A View to Death in the Morning: Hunting and Nature through History Zusammenfassung Presents the field of molecular anthropology - a synthesis of the holistic approach of anthropology with the reductive approach of molecular genetics - as a way of improving our understanding of the science of human evolution. This book illuminates the background of our place in nature and asks us to think critically about what science is. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface to the Paperback Edition Introduction ONE MOLECULAR ANTHROPOLOGY TWO THE APE IN YOU THREE HOW PEOPLE DIFFER FROM ONE ANOTHER FOUR THE MEANING OF HUMAN VARIATION FIVE BEHAVIORAL GENETICS SIX FOLK HEREDITY SEVEN HUMAN NATURE EIGHT HUMAN RIGHTS ... FOR APES? NINE A HUMAN GENE MUSEUM? TEN IDENTITY AND DESCENT ELEVEN IS BLOOD REALLY SO DAMN THICK? TWELVE SCIENCE! RELIGION! AND WORLDVIEW Notes and Sources Index ...

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Marks, Jonathan Marks, Marks Jonathan
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.11.2003
• EAN: 9780520240643
• ISBN: 978-0-520-24064-3
• No. of pages: 333
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 240 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / Mammals, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Physical, Biology, life sciences, Zoology: mammals (mammalogy)